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A multifaceted look at a city that has become a model for urban reform even with a war on its doorsteps, interwoven with thought-provoking meditations on living “on the hyphen” between U.S. and Colombian cultures.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword: A City on Display, by Herbert Tico Braun
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • La Primera Ronda
  • My Gringa Accent
  • Life and Rules
  • Looking for Maria
  • View from My Window
  • Dreaming of Journalism
  • War and Peace
  • Life on Movie Row
  • Redprodepaz: Knitting Peace
  • Dogs
  • TransMilenio
  • Three Tall Buildings
  • Displaced
  • Time
  • Plaza de Bolívar
  • Horses and Other Animals
  • El Chocó: Never to the Jungle
  • Artists: Beyond the Invisible Door
  • Dogs II
  • A City of Many Hues
  • Robberies
  • Random Acts of Kindness
  • Upstairs, Downstairs
  • Ciclovía
  • Bombs and Other Loud Noises
  • TransMilenio II
  • Theatre
  • Red, Yellow, and Blue
  • Disappeared
  • Good Friday: The Passion
  • Books
  • Gabo
  • Santa Marta: Listening to Students
  • The Strike
  • Remolinos
  • Abortion and Citizens' Rights
  • Catcalls and Unwelcome Whistles
  • Electing Álvaro
  • Jamundí
  • TransMilenio III
  • Truth and Reparations
  • Dreaming of Journalism II
  • CAFAM
  • Epilogue

A Gringa in Bogot225 Living Colombias Invisible

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2010
      ISBN13: 9780292722972, 978-0292722972
      ISBN10: 0292722974
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A multifaceted look at a city that has become a model for urban reform even with a war on its doorsteps, interwoven with thought-provoking meditations on living “on the hyphen” between U.S. and Colombian cultures.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword: A City on Display, by Herbert Tico Braun
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • La Primera Ronda
      • My Gringa Accent
      • Life and Rules
      • Looking for Maria
      • View from My Window
      • Dreaming of Journalism
      • War and Peace
      • Life on Movie Row
      • Redprodepaz: Knitting Peace
      • Dogs
      • TransMilenio
      • Three Tall Buildings
      • Displaced
      • Time
      • Plaza de Bolívar
      • Horses and Other Animals
      • El Chocó: Never to the Jungle
      • Artists: Beyond the Invisible Door
      • Dogs II
      • A City of Many Hues
      • Robberies
      • Random Acts of Kindness
      • Upstairs, Downstairs
      • Ciclovía
      • Bombs and Other Loud Noises
      • TransMilenio II
      • Theatre
      • Red, Yellow, and Blue
      • Disappeared
      • Good Friday: The Passion
      • Books
      • Gabo
      • Santa Marta: Listening to Students
      • The Strike
      • Remolinos
      • Abortion and Citizens' Rights
      • Catcalls and Unwelcome Whistles
      • Electing Álvaro
      • Jamundí
      • TransMilenio III
      • Truth and Reparations
      • Dreaming of Journalism II
      • CAFAM
      • Epilogue

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